
State Violence and Carcerality
Structural violence manifests in exclusionary politics. Specifically, we are looking for stories about policing, demolitions, surveillance architecture, custodial torture, enforced disappearances, and the weaponization of law as everyday governance. For carcerality, we are interested in global stories that explore incarceration as state logic— from creating the “forever prisoner” through legislation like the UAPA, NSA, the Patriot Act, to the criminalization of dissent, political imprisonment, and caste- and class-based punishment regimes. We are keen to engage with global border regimes (including internal borders), occupation, paramilitary rule, migration, apartheid systems, and military governance enforced through surveillance tech and coercive control. We are also looking for work on the carceral state and state violence as a tool of anti-poor repression.




BK-16 Prison Diaries: Sagar Gorkhe’s parents are struggling in his absence

Introducing the BK-16 Prison Diaries series


Learning the Ropes of the Ram Rajya: How the children of Bihar are taught religious hatred

Book Excerpt: Behind High Walls: Naxalite Narratives


